Pregnancy Meal Ideas

During pregnancy it’s essential to eat a balanced diet rich in vitamins and nutrients, both to keep you healthy and energized during a demanding time for your body, and to help your baby form vital organs and brain power. These meal ideas all incorporate those essential elements for good health, and are also delicious for those ladies suffering from food aversions.
These meals all contain these all-important nutrients for you and the baby:

  • Protein – the building block of life, it’s important to get at least 80g of protein each day to help form your developing baby.
  • Complex Carbohydrates – whole grains, fruits, and vegetables provide lots of fiber to not only carry the nutrients through your body but to help keep your digestive system, which can be finicky during pregnancy, running smoothly. These foods also provide your body with the all-important vitamins and minerals needed for bone development, prevention of birth defects, prevention of anemia, provide energy, and even to ease morning sickness.
  • Healthy Fats (DHA and EPA) – make your baby smarter and help form their brain and eyes, reduce inflammation in your aching body, may prevent prenatal and post-partum depression, may help prevent pre-term labor and pre-eclampsia, increases breast milk production, and new studies even show that these fats may help lower allergies in infants.
  • Don’t forget to supplement with a high quality cod liver oil and prenatal vitamins to cover your bases.

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